While Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and others try to bring into relief our current political situation by depicting an original, "natural" condition that preceded the "conventional" state of politics, Spinoza brings that natural state forward and shows how we never truly leave it. W…
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A contrastive study of Kiswahili and Spanish, two different languages both genetically and morphologically, and at the same time identical since they are both human languages. The study develops gradually, touching on themes related to language and communication, general linguis…
This dissertation employs an interdisciplinary approach to address the literary-historical debate surrounding the definition of “Expressionism” in German-speaking literature. Foregrounding the movement's inherently messianic worldview, it argues that what commentators traditiona…
This thesis is the first history of the early Soviet regime's legal, administrative and medical approaches to homosexuality, using psychiatric archival and criminal records. Treating the period from 1917 to 1941, it uncovers the subcultures of male and female homosexuals in soci…
This thesis re-examines the role of marriage in the golden age of seventeenth-century French comedy. It reconsiders received wisdom on the subject to challenge acceptance of the final promise of marriage as a dénouement complet to comedy. Through an analysis of the themes of dis…
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the transnational sex trade that has developed between Turkey and the former Soviet Union in the post Cold War era. It is based on 16 months of field research in Trabzon, a port town on the northeastern Turkish Black Sea coast, where…
The problem of the passions, called the principal concern of Greco-Roman moral philosophy, is also a chief preoccupation of ancient Jewish and Christian homiletic and paraenetic texts. Whereas such texts often treat desire and self-restraint, passion and renunciation, as opposed…
Colonial narratives and nationalist rhetoric in Africa have always associated female sexuality with male desire and consumption, aberrance, or perversion. While historical narratives suggested that native women’s bodies should be tamed and possessed, African nationalist narrativ…
This dissertation comprises a study of the concept of desire in the thought of Jacques Lacan. The project identifies and explains the philosophical implications of Lacanian “Erotology,” the logos of eros, the logic of desire, as it is developed in Lacan’s thinking, writing, and …
Mystical texts often present themselves as possessing a “donative” intent, in which writers aim to share the significance of their own experience. This dissertation will show how a consideration of donative intent and its textual results can enrich the study of medieval and earl…
This thesis prioritizes the use of Sanskrit primary texts and adopts a philological and comparative philosophical methodology. It investigates the relationship between the enlightened mental state which occurs penultimately to liberation in relationship to the experience of libe…
This thesis explores the relationship between architecture and desire, drawing from film theory, architectural theory, and psychoanalytic theory to investigate how desire and sexuality materialize in the architectural spaces of cinema. In contrast to studies of architecture and …
In this dissertation, I analyze a selection of works by eight Latin American female authors in order to explore how they represent the process of the social construction of women’s identities and roles in the male-dominated social, institutional, familial, and personal spaces th…
Perhaps the whole of human history could be summed up with one word: economy. The law of the home and the home of all law. Without fail, this situation results in a structured devotion that must decide what to do with desire. And the economic decision often follows a violent tra…
This dissertation argues that the Tenth Commandment plays a formative role in Paul’s ethical instruction in the following ways: (1) Paul describes and defines sin using the Tenth Commandment (Rom 7:7; 1 Cor 10:6); (2) he connects covetousness and idolatry (1 Cor 10:6–7; Eph 5:5;…